<p>do we really get automatically rejected if dont have sufficient "points"??</p>
<p>yes. took me a while to figure out what you were talking about :/</p>
<p>yes, I believe so</p>
<p>Yeah. You can even ask the people how many points you got and how far from the cutoff you were. It helps for appeals.</p>
<p>so does that mean in some cases..ucsd is harder to get into than la or cal??</p>
<p>Its certainly not completely impossible for that to happen. There seems to be more leeway in terms of what the adcoms can do with a weaker application at LA/Cal whereas at SD what they can do is certainly much more restricted. You must've read before about the guy that got into Cornell/UCLA/UCB, but not UCSD (he went to my school), so yeah, not totally out of the question. Still, though, the majority of applicants will find that the difficulty goes by their rankings, with LA ~ Cal if you aren't black.</p>